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L. STRICKEL.

BRUSH. No. 390,715. Patented y001;.V 9, 1888.

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LOUIS STRIOKEL, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE O. WETHERBEE, OF SAME PLACE.

BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of letters Patent N o. 390,715, dated October 9, 1888.

Application tiled February 14, 1988. Serial No. 263,050. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, LoUrs STRICKEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of NVayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Brushes; and Ideclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appert-ains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specication.

My invention relates to the manufacture of brushes, having for its object the construction of a rm and durable brush of superior quality and at a reduced cost of manufacture.

My invention consists in the combinations of devices and appliances more fully hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 illustrates features of my invention, vthe same being applied to the construction of a whitewash-brush and shown partlyin section; Fig. 2, an inverted plan of the scrubbing-brush head; and Fig. 3, a view of the scrubbin g-brush in side elevation, partly in section.

I carry out my invention as follows: A represents a solid head of any description or for any desired purpose, and a represents an elongated socket in said head, closed at its extremities, as shown, the socket passing longitudinally across the head the desired distance, but without passing through, so as to leave the head intact at the ends of the socket.

B represents any ordinary ber used in the manufacture of brushes.

Orepresents an elongated staple corresponding in length substantially to the length of the socket in connection with which it is to be used. The stock of ber, with the bindingstaple, is forced into the socket, the ends of the staples penetrating the head and being clinched therein. The socket being closed at its ends, the staple is hidden from view in a neat and workmanlike manner, the ber simply extending downward in sight beneath the under face of the head.

In certain cases, if desired, cement may be employed to assist in binding the ber in the socket, which, being closed at its ends, does not permit the. cement to ooze out therefrom as the ber is forced therein. In a whitewashbrush a single such socket may suffice, and so a brush be constructed of particular neatness of nish, while at the same time the construction is rendered simple and efcient. In a scrubbing-brush, however, it will be found desirable to construct the solid head with a series of said elongated grooves, each being of any desired length and closed at the ends, leaving the outer edge of the head intact, and in each olwhich the ber is secured by the staple in the manner already described. In the scrubhing-brush these elongated recesses are located intermediate the ends of the head, side by side, the interior recesses preferably of greater length than those at the side thereof; though this is immaterial. 'lhe scrubbing-brush is also provided with circular smaller sockets,a., of any desired number, located at the ends of the elongated recesses and at the ends of the head of the brush, and into which the ber is forced and held in place by a staple driven into and clinched in the solid head, as before.

In the construction of ascrubbing-brush the center of the brush may rst be made by applying the ber in the elongated grooves,when the stock so put in maybe trimmed before the smaller orices at the ends of the head are filled, after which the said end orices may be lled and trimmed, so that the ber shall be of longer length, as is found desirable in this class of brushes. Did the elongated orices extend through the head, instead of being limited, as described, the whole ber would of necessity have to be trimmed of equal length; but by so limiting the elongated recesses and constructing the head with smaller orices at the ends the stock engaged in the respective series of orices may be trimmed of unequal lengths, as described, so simplifying the manufacture. These smaller orices may conveniently be bored into the head. The elongated recesses may be made so that the stock shall project substantially straight downward from the head, while at the same time the holes a' may be bored into the head in a slanting direction, so as to make the stock project therefrom at an angle, as is found desirable. In this manner the ends of the brush may be so constructed and shaped as to facilitate the e11- IOO trance of the brush into corners and the like.

I would have it definitely understood that, although I have described and illustrated my invention as applied to whitewash and scrubbing brushes, I do not limit myself thereto, as I contemplate the application of my invention to various brushes to which it may be found adapted. Neither do I Wish to limit myself to a brush where the fiber is applied in the annular and elongated sockets trimmed of nnequal lengths, as the fiber might be of uniform length without departing from the principle of my invention.

What I claim isn The improved brush herein described, consisting of a solid head formed of a single in- N. S. WRIGHT, GEORGE H. HiiGGs. 

